Author: sebb
Date: Sat Sep 8 04:34:30 2007
New Revision: 573825
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=573825&view=rev
Log:
Describe properties and variables
Modified:
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/test_plan.xml
Modified: jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/test_plan.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/test_plan.xml?rev=573825&r1=573824&r2=573825&view=diff
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--- jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/test_plan.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/test_plan.xml Sat Sep 8
04:34:30 2007
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
<document prev="build-test-plan.html" next="build-web-test-plan.html"
date="$Date$">
<properties>
- <title>User's Manual: Elements of a Test Plan</title>
+<title>User's Manual: Elements of a Test Plan</title>
</properties>
<body>
@@ -349,6 +349,28 @@
Post-Processor 2
Assertion 1
</pre>
+</p>
+</subsection>
+
+<subsection name="§-num;.10 Properties and Variables" anchor="properties">
+
+<p>
+JMeter <b>properties</b> are defined in jmeter.properties (see <a
href="get-started.html#configuring_jmeter">Gettting Started - Configuring
JMeter</a> for more details).
+<br></br>
+Properties are global to jmeter, and are used to define some of the defaults
JMeter uses.
+For example the property remote_hosts defines the servers that JMeter will try
to run remotely.
+Properties can be referenced in test plans
+- see <a href="functions.html#__property">Functions - read a property</a> -
+but cannot be used for thread-specific values.
+</p>
+<p>
+JMeter <b>variables</b> are local to each thread. The values may be the same
for each thread, or they may be different.
+<br></br>
+If a variable is updated by a thread, only the thread copy of the variable is
changed.
+For example the <complink name="Regular Expression Extractor"/> Post-Processor
+will set its variables according to the sample that its thread has read, and
these can be used later
+by the same thread.
+For details of how to reference variables and functions, see <a
href="functions.html">Functions and Variables</a>
</p>
</subsection>
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